Lower-level (Comprehension)
1.) How useful is repetition in the learning process? Is it most helpful in the long or short term?
Higher-level (analysis and evaluation)
2.) Study the chart on page 187 that gives ideas for getting and keeping students' attention. Choose two strategies that you want to use in your future classroom and then create an example for each showing how you might implement the strategy into a lesson.
1. Repetition can be useful as a short term process, for example, in which one may use “maintenance rehearsal” in which they repeat a phone number until it is dialed because once it is no longer repeated, the number will quickly disappear from memory. Although students often use repetition/ rehearsal to repeat words, definitions and formulas, this strategy is ineffective long term because storage and retrieval is limited.
ReplyDelete2. To get, and hopefully keep, my elementary grade level students’ attention in my future classroom, I would focus on “incorporating intriguing topics and tasks into my lessons” as well as “provide frequent breaks from sedentary activities.” For instance, for a vocabulary lesson I may provide students an opportunity to pantomime the vocabulary words/ definitions. This task would further allow for non-sedentary activities that are especially important when working with elementary grade level students.
Tyler, I agree with the categorization of your questions. I would also suggest that the higher-level question allows for synthesis by asking one to “create examples”.